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| − | '''Savathûn, the Witch Queen''', formerly known as '''Sathona''', is a [[Hive]] god and sister to [[Xivu Arath, God of War]] and [[Oryx, the Taken King]]. Together with her two siblings, she was a progenitor of the contemporary Hive species and one of its chief gods, having made a pact with the [[Worm]]s of [[Fundament]]. She is driven to understand the deepest secrets of the universe, and gains power from the deception and confusion of those who seek to understand her unfathomable schemes. | + | '''Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Integer lacus ex, aliquam ac facilisis ut, ultricies condimentum tortor. Nunc non maximus ante. Vestibulum mattis a massa quis scelerisque. Nam euismod quam sit amet fringilla dignissim. Quisque quis nulla justo. Nullam et dui pulvinar, posuere orci eget, scelerisque erat. Aenean non dapibus elit, ut aliquam metus. Nam et malesuada orci. Nulla volutpat erat pharetra, commodo leo eu, lobortis neque. Aliquam viverra sapien ac nunc auctor gravida sed sed est. Sed feugiat tincidunt egestas. Integer maximus sem nibh. Morbi et sollicitudin quam. Etiam consectetur ipsum a orci sollicitudin, non sodales lectus sollicitudin.''' |
| | ==Biography== | | ==Biography== |
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| − | {{quote|I am Sathona, middle daughter of the dead king. I will take back my home and eat the mother jelly. I will raise my spawn on the corpse of the [[Helium King]]. On my right eye I promise this.|Sathona}}
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| − | Savathûn was born Sathona, on the planet [[Fundament]]. She was one of a short-lived species whose homeworld had crashed into Fundament millions of years earlier, with the shards of the planet forming Fundament's continents. The [[Osmium Court]] was one such continent, ruled by the [[Osmium King]], and Sathona was his second-born daughter, older sister to [[Xivu Arath, God of War|Xi Ro]] and younger sister to [[Oryx, the Taken King|Aurash]]. The three sisters were tutored by [[Taox]], a sterile Mother, the proto-Hive morph capable of spawning children, which also allowed them to live longer by eating "Mother-jelly" at adulthood. The proto-Hive's harsh lives convinced Sathona at an early age to become a Mother, not because she wanted children or feared dying, but because she wanted to live long enough to have meaning in her life.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#V: Needle and Worm|V: Needle and Worm]]''</ref>
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| − | However, by the time her father turned ten Fundament years (a lifetime by the standards of their species), he had discovered a dead [[Worm]] on the shores of the Osmium Court, which he started tending to it as a familiar, and began raving that the Syzygy, a prophesied disaster, would soon occur. While Aurash took her father's warnings to heart, Taox concluded that the King was falling to senility in his old age, and that none of his daughters, which were two years old at the time, could properly rule the Osmium Court and protect it from the [[Helium Court]], a rival kingdom. While acknowledging that Sathona was a brilliant thinker, Taox noted that she could not fight. In desperation, Taox sent a message to the rulers of the Helium Court, the Helium Drinkers, saying that she would help them assassinate the King and his daughters if they installed her as their regent. The Helium Drinkers accepted Taox's proposal and attacked, killing the King but failing to kill his daughters. In the confusion, Sathona managed to steal her father's Worm in their escape. Reaching Aurash's ship, the three sisters made a blood oath to return and take vengeance, with Sathona vowing that she would become a Mother and raise her spawn on the corpses of the Helium Drinkers.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#III: The Oath|III: The Oath]]''</ref>
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| − | Over the next year, the three sisters sailed the oceans of Fundament. During this time, Sathona began to hear her father's worm speak to her, guiding her to acts that would save the sisters over the year. Finally, the three sisters found a ship they named "the needle", built of high technology, but whose crew had died obscenely after hatching an egg from a creature that they could not recognize. Xi Ro insisted that they sell the ship at the Kaharn Atoll, where the species of Fundament gathered, saying that an auction could raise them enough money to hire mercenaries to fight the Helium Drinkers. However, Sathona told Xi Ro that the ship was worthless. Aurash instead suggested that they repair the ship. With prompting from the Worm, Sathona agreed with Aurash and convinced Xi Ro to repair the ship.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#V: Needle and Worm|V: Needle and Worm]]''</ref>
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| − | Over the next two years, the sisters repaired the needle, but by this point, the sisters were five years old. Sathona raised her fears that she would soon be too old to eat mother-jelly, and that the sisters would be unable to fulfill their oath. Aurash said that the sisters had to dive beneath the oceans of Fundament, traveling to the planet's core. Xi Ro warned that this was how the crew had died, but Sathona, urged on by the Worm, agreed with Aurash. The sisters took the needle into the deep. They finally reached a point where they could use the ship's sensors on the oceans. To their horror, they discovered that the Syzygy was real, and that Fundament's moons had already aligned. Just then, they were encountered by the [[Leviathan (creature)|Leviathan]], a creature long spoken of in proto-Hive myth. The Leviathan warned the sisters that they needed to turn back, or else would unleash disaster upon the universe, saying that they faced a choice between the [[Light]], which offered civilization, and the [[Darkness]], which offered only violence. However, the Leviathan offered no hope to the sisters to avoid the Syzygy. Sathona then revealed the Worm's help to her sisters, and how it urged them to go down. Rejecting the Leviathan's entreaties, the sisters dove into the core.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#VIII: Leviathan|VIII: Leviathan]]''</ref>
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| − | Reaching the very center of Fundament, the three sisters found the Worm Gods: [[Akka, the Worm of Secrets]], [[Eir, the Keeper of Order]], [[Ur, the Ever-Hunger]], [[Xol, Will of the Thousands]], and [[Yul, the Honest Worm]]. The Worm Gods offered the three sisters a chance for the proto-Hive to escape Fundament as well as achieve immortality. All they had to do was take the Worms larvae into them as symbiotes and spread them among the proto-Hive. The Worms posed the caveat that the sisters must never cease their natures: Xi Ro must always test her strength, Sathona must always be cunning, and Aurash must always try to understand. The sisters accepted the pact and became the first Hive: Xi Ro took the Knight morph and became Xivu Arath, Sathona took the Mother morph and became Savathûn, and Aurash took the King morph, transforming into a male and became Auryx, the King of the Hive.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XII: Out of the Deep|XII: Out of the Deep]]''</ref>
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| − | ===Campaign of Destruction===
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| − | {{quote|I don’t have a strict proof yet, you know. This thing we believe — that we’re liberating the universe by devouring it, that we’re cutting out the rot, that we’re on course to join the final shape — I haven’t found a strict, eternal proof. We might yet be wrong.|Savathûn}}
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| − | As Auryx and his sisters forced an ultimatum on the remaining proto-Hive to accept the worms or perish, Auryx turned his attention to Fundament's moons, and the [[Ammonite]]s there who had allied with the [[Traveler]] and gave asylum to Taox. Initially he was willing to negotiate with the Ammonites, but his sister Savathûn, under pressure from the Worms, killed Auryx as punishment. Rather than dying, Auryx's soul instead passed to his [[Ascendant realm]], or throne world, where his soul resided until he returned to the mortal realm. Rebuked, Auryx purged what sympathy and goodwill he had left, becoming a merciless tyrant. He and his sisters warred with and killed one another on a regular basis after the defeat of the Ammonites, as part of their worship of the Sword-Logic and their attempt to become the sharpest blades in the universe, heading to their Ascendant realms when defeated. Their war of revenge against Taox had transformed into a campaign of genocide, when they slew the Ammonites and other interstellar civilizations to feed their worms. When Oryx established the [[High War|Court of Oryx]] to study the sword logic, Savathûn was inspired to establish a court of her own, known as the [[High Coven]].<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXII: The High War|XXII: The High War]]''</ref>
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| − | During the war with the [[Ecumene]], Auryx came to realize that the Worm Gods had deceived him and his sisters: their worms appetites were growing past their ability to feed with death. Meeting with his sisters in his ascendant realm, surrounded by their servants (some of which despised them for showing weakness) they despaired over their dilemma. When his sisters offered their power to help Auryx find a way to save them, Auryx killed them, then used that power to confront his patron god [[Akka, the Worm of Secrets]]. He killed Akka so that he could steal its ability to call upon [[Darkness|the Deep]] and created the Tablets of Ruin, which gave him the power to [[Taken|Take]]. His transformation complete, Auryx was now Oryx, the Taken King. During the subsequent war with the Ecumene, Oryx revived Xivu Arath in an act of war, and revived Savathûn in an act of cunning. He then decreed the tithe system: each Hive would kill their enemies, take some to feed their own worm, and tithe the rest to their superior. Thralls would tithe to Acolytes, Acolytes would tithe to Knights or Wizards, the Knights and Wizards would tithe to the Ascendant Hive, those who commanded legions of warriors and earned the right to enter the Hive gods' Ascendant realms. All of this violence would eventually reach Oryx, Savathûn, and Xivu Arath, allowing their worms to feed on violence while continuing to invoke their inner natures.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXIX: Carved in Ruin|XXIX: Carved in Ruin]]''</ref>
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| − | Following the [[Golden Amputation]], Oryx declared to his sisters that the Hive had conquered its way to the edge of the Deep, and that it had granted him a personal audience. <ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies#Books_of_Sorrow/XXX: a golden amputation|XXX: a golden amputation]]''</ref> As Oryx retreated into his throne world to commune with it, Savathûn conspired with Xivu Arath to strand him there and steal his Tablets of Ruin by cutting off the tribute flowing through his tithe system. <ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXXV: This Love Is War|XXXV: This Love Is War]]''</ref> They were ultimately unsuccessful, and on returning, Oryx waged war on Savathûn and crippled her own tribute.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXXVI: Eater of Hope|XXXVI: Eater of Hope]]''</ref>
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| − | In the aftermath of this attempted betrayal, Savathûn learned of one of Oryx's daughters, Ir Anûk, and was both enraged and delighted by her brilliance. <ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXXVII: shapes : points|XXXVII: shapes : points]]''</ref>
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| − | While Oryx was off studying the Deep, his son Crota was deceived by Savathûn into using his [[Cleaver]] to cut a portal inside his throne world, allowing the [[Vex]] to invade it. This amused Savathûn. Her daughter alerted Eir to the situation, who alerted Oryx in turn.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XXXIX:_open_your_eye_:_go_into_it|XXXIX: open your eye : go into it]]''</ref> After Oryx dealt with the incursion, Savathûn told Xivu Arath that Oryx's throne had been compromised and showed her where to cut into it so she could kill him. However, Oryx had recognized that his throne world was vulnerable, so he moved it into a mighty [[Dreadnaught]] scrimshawed from the remains of Akka, stealing from Savathûn her Scalpel to make it.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XL:_An_Emperor_For_All Outcomes|XL: An Emperor For All Outcomes]]''</ref><ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XLI: Dreadnaught|XLI: Dreadnaught]]''</ref>
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| − | After Oryx confronted and captured [[Quria, Blade Transform|Quria]] for the last time, he presented the Vex to Savathûn as a gift, hoping she would be pleased by its simulations. When she asked him what proof they had that what they were doing was right, Oryx simply replied that the Hive's existence was proof enough in their convictions to live eternal by the Sword-Logic.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XLIV: strict proof eternal|XLIV: strict proof eternal]]''</ref> Following the war with the [[Harmony]], Savathûn decided that her fleets would enter the black hole that the Harmony lived around, claiming that they would become stronger for it, while Xivu Arath took her fleets away from Oryx's as she felt he constrained her too much.<ref>'''Bungie (2015/9/15)''', ''[[Destiny]]: [[The Taken King]] Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Grimoire]]: [[Grimoire:Enemies/Books_of_Sorrow#XLVI:_The_Gift_Mast|XLVI: The Gift Mast]]''</ref>
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| − | {{Quote|I shall discorporate, so that I exist wherever my schemes and conspiracies also exist. And so I will be immortal, as long as anyone seeks to understand me and fails.|Savathûn to a confused Thrall}}
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| − | Around the same time that the Hive's tribute system was established, Savathûn, unsatisfied with the established method of Worm-feeding, embarked on a project that would allow her to escape the trap feeding the Worms created. To do so, she attempted to increase the rate at which her subordinate Hive gathered tribute for her, by placing several Ascendant Hive in orbit around a black hole. In doing this, she hoped that because time would pass more slowly for the Ascendants relative to the outside universe, the Ascendant's Worm would perceive an increased rate of tribute produced by lesser Hive elsewhere in the cosmos, and thus be satisfied without a true increase in tribute.
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| − | However, this plan was unsuccessful, as the Ascendants' Worms understood what was happening and increased their hunger. Consequently, Savathûn resolved to try another approach, in which her subordinate Hive would gather tribute in a region of space where time passed faster than the rest of the universe. She planned to use the power and insight attained through this method to completely overhaul the way in which she gained tribute through the Sword Logic, going from a system where tribute was obtained through violence to one where tribute was obtained through the failure of other beings to understand her schemes. This new system of acquiring tribute would be known as "[[Imbaru]]". To achieve this, she purposely led Crota to let the Vex into his father's Throne World, in order to compel the Vex to create [[Quria, Blade Transform]]. Later, when the campaign against the Harmony was complete and [[Quria]] was Taken and given to her as a gift, Savathûn left her siblings behind and entered the Harmony's black hole, hoping to further her plans and prevent the Taken Vex Mind from reporting her work to Oryx. While in the black hole, She taught Quria to harness Hive magic and apply it to computational problem-solving. Using this, Quria learned how to navigate and engineer the singularity, then format the information for Savathûn to understand. Now able to understand the singularity's inner workings, she began moving forward with her grand scheme.
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| − | Savathûn explained the details of her plan to a confused Thrall, as per a rule of the High Coven that a Wizard's schemes should be incomprehensible to a Thrall. She then recorded her conversation and encrypted it with the assistance of Quria, along with a message for a future reader. This message would remain unread for an untold span of time, until the [[The Guardian|Guardian]] stumbled upon it, encrypted within Glimmer, while exploring the [[Dreaming City]].
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| − | ===From the Shadows===
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| − | [[File:Savathuns Song.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Savathûn's Song.]]
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| − | {{Quote|I'm looking at a hell of a summoning ritual. Biggest Shrieker I've seen in all my lives. Mark my words, something real mean and real old is gonna use that thing to lay eyes on this planet.|Taeko-3 watching the Hive summon Savathûn's Song}}
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| − | Two years after the apparent death of Oryx in the [[Taken War]], a previously unknown [[Savathûn's Hive|Hive brood]] infested the abandoned [[Golden Age]] [[New Pacific Arcology|arcologies]] on the moon of [[Titan (moon)|Titan]], led by powerful Hive such as [[Naktal, Fury of Savathûn]], [[Kudazad, Binder of Savathûn]], and [[Vanbaluk, Trusted of Savathûn]]. [[Ghost]] scans of various Hive artifacts further linked the new brood to Savathûn. Most disturbing of all, a fireteam of Guardians was lost during an incursion into the New Pacific Arcology, Operation Caliban, and were discovered to have been converted by the Hive into crystals containing [[Void Light]]. These crystals were intended to feed a summoning ritual for her, the centerpiece of which was a massive [[Shrieker]] titled "[[Savathûn's Song]]". With the aid of the [[Praxic Warlocks|Praxic]] [[Warlock]] [[Taeko-3]], the Guardian fought through the depths of the Arcology and destroyed the crystals and the Song, disrupting the summoning ritual.
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| − | Evidence from elsewhere in the solar system indicates that Savathûn has taken control of the remnants of the [[Taken]] through Quria; having learned the power to Take through its perfected simulations of Oryx.<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard'', [[Toland]]: [[Toland#Quotes|Quria is the key. The mind simulates Oryx, and thereby masters the power to Take. But of course, Quria is no power unto itself.]]</ref>.
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| − | On [[Io]], Taken forces led by [[Ir Arok, Tongue of Quria]] have attempted to corrupt the Vex collective at the [[Pyramidion]], only to fail due to the [[Guardian]]'s intervention. Furthermore, a Red Legion commander, [[Grask, the Consumed]] was encountered as a Taken; the Red Legion only had a presence in Sol ''after'' Oryx's death, so this serves as further indication that Savathûn has achieved domination over the Taken.
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| − | {{Quote|I got a fragment of the message. "Savathun, emerge from the Deep. Take our power."|[[Ghost]] translating the Hive broadcast}}
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| − | After the awakening and fall of [[Nokris]] and the Worm God, [[Xol]], Guardians found the Hive on [[Mars]] sending messages to Savathûn, pleading her to arise from the Deep and "claim their power".<ref>'''Bungie (2018/5/8)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Warmind (expansion)|Warmind]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/adventure-deathly-tremors Deathly Tremors]''</ref> Envoys of Savathûn have also been seen emerging from Ascendant portals in Hellas Basin.
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| − | As Savathûn neared gaining complete control over the Taken, within the [[Reef]], the Witch-Queen gained a new and powerful ally in the form of [[Riven]], the last known [[Ahamkara]] in the Solar System; Taken by Oryx during the onset of the Taken War and the first invasion of the [[Dreaming City]]. However, unlike most Taken, Riven retained her sense of self and free-will. With Oryx's passing and the Taken leaderless, Savathûn made contact with the Taken within the City and Riven, giving the Ahamkara a new purpose to serve the Witch-Queen. Through Riven, the Taken were prepared to corrupt the whole of the Awoken and launch an invasion of the Reef, using proxies like [[Uldren Sov]] and his [[Fallen]] [[Scorn]]. Though Riven succeeded in opening the gateway to the City, it left her vulnerable to the [[Guardians]] sent to kill her. The Guardians, aided by their Awoken allies and the formerly Taken [[Techeuns]], managed to kill Riven and cleanse her Taken essence. Nonetheless, her death served a purpose as the Ahamkara transcended death and granted one last wish: cursing the Dreaming City with Taken energies and altering its rules of ascendancy.
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| − | Whether Savathûn was implied to have aligned with her sister or not, [[Xivu Arath]] has taken measures to assume control over the Taken and Hive within the Dreaming City. Entities sworn to the Hive's God of War have appeared stealing Awoken relics of dangerous knowledge, with powerful Taken creatures supporting them. Though the Guardians put a stop to this scheme, it proves that the two scheming sisters have shared a seemingly mutual alliance to seize their brother's Taken army for themselves.
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| − | To further her goals and maintain her advantage, Savathûn entrusted her daughter, [[Dûl Incaru, the Eternal Return]] to command the Taken Curse within the Dreaming City and find a way to invade the [[Distributary]], the true origination of the Awoken, to reach new bounds of godly strength. Despite having the backing of Xivu Arath's Hive and the Taken at her command, [[Mara Sov]] called upon her Guardians allies to fight back against the Taken corruption. Battling their way to the center of [[Eleusinia]], the former corrupted Throne World of the Awoken Queen, the Guardians fought with Dûl Incaru and killed the daughter of the Witch-Queen.
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| − | However, this seeming failure was all part of Savathûn's greater plans for the Dreaming City. After Dûl Incaru's death at the hands of the Guardians, the Dreaming City reverted to the state it had been in upon first being unsealed by the Guardian, progressing again through the same process of becoming corrupted by the Taken and culminating in another battle between Dûl Incaru and the Guardians. This apparent time-loop, spun by the Taken Vex mind Quria and realized by Riven's wish, both furthers Savathûn's long-term goal of amassing tribute for herself through her subordinates committing violence within spaces with looped or dilated time, and also presents the Guardians with a dilemma: they can either repeatedly strike down Dûl Incaru and relive the same series of events, or they can refuse to do so and allow Dûl Incaru to complete her mission to find the Distributary.
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| − | {{Quote|Gahlran is a quick learner. His [deceptions] serve him well. He serves [me] in return.|The Witch, Insidious}}
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| − | Savathûn would later face a contender in her attempts to undermine the [[Guardians]]: the former [[Cabal]] [[Emperor]] [[Calus]]. During one of the Shadows' conquests of the Hive's war moons, Savathun laid a trap out for them to find the [[Crown of Sorrow]], an ancient [[Ascendant Hive]] relic believed to imitate Oryx's power to compel wills. In reality, it was a surveillance device meant for the Witch-Queen to spy on Calus from the Ascendant Realm, in the hopes of putting him under her control when worn.
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| − | Instead, Calus had [[Gahlran, the Sorrow-Bearer]] wear the Crown in an attempt to command the Hive; only to trigger Savathûn's enchantments that drove Gahlran insane and unleashed the Hive within the [[Leviathan]]'s [[Menagerie]]. Gahlran's terror was only short-lived as Calus had him put down by a raid team of [[Guardian]]s with the aid of Savathûn's magic and the Crown retrieved to be cleansed of the witch's wards.
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| − | The Witch-Queen would go on to torment Calus by infiltrating the minds of his Loyalists, through the use of what Calus described as a "viral language". She also left messages within the [[Lore:The Chronicon|Chronicon]], a document Calus commissioned as a record of his and his Loyalists' past and future deeds.
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| − | {{Quote|Seek to uncover all you can from nightmares… Seek your forebears in those ethereal shapes. For, while I could tell you such a path leads to disappointment, you must see for yourselves. [...] Rise the Crimson Spire. Signal your coming. Challenge the Light.|Savathûn to Hashladûn}}
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| − | When three sibling Hive heretics of the [[Spawn of Crota]], Malkanth, Akrazul, and Azavath, sought to rebel against the daughters of Savathûn's nephew, [[Crota, Son of Oryx|Crota]], who had taken over the leadership of the [[Hidden Swarm]], Savathûn was revealed to be the master behind their situation. As the Wizard Malkanth performed a ritual to put the essence of Akrazul, a crippled Knight, into the body of her fellow Wizard Azavath, the plan backfired. Akrazul's rage was so great that it became unbridled within Azavath's body, leading him to slay Malkanth and assault the Swarm. As Malkanth's essence had left her body in her death, Savathûn whispered to Azavath's essence and instructed her to take up the mantle of [[Deathsinger]]. Placing her essence into Malkanth's body, Azavath would become [[Ir Airâm, Deathsinger]], killing both Akrazul and the Swarm's champion [[Zulmak, Instrument of Torment|Zulmak]] with her [[Deathsong]]. Savathûn captured Zulmak's essence as he died for her own purposes, and discussed with Malkanth's essence, without a body, before she died. The Witch-Queen told Malkanth of her dismissal of gods and "absolutes" such as time, space, and death, when they are all [[Vex|so]] [[Ascendant realm|easily]] [[Guardians|broken]]. Believing that when the final absolute falls reality will face a [[Darkness|final and complete ending]], Savathûn said she wished to ensure that end would not come to pass as Malkanth's essence faded away into nothing.
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| − | The Witch-Queen would then make contact with the Daughters of Crota. As part of her greater schemes, she made a deal with the four offering two boons: the essence of [[Zulmak, Instrument of Torment|Zulmak]], to be reanimated as a puppet champion for the Daughters' nefarious purposes, and the reformation of the Choir, a legendary group of Deathsingers to be lead by [[Ir Airâm, Deathsinger|Ir Airâm]]. In turn, the Daughters would invest in the construction of the [[Scarlet Keep]] to draw the Guardians to the [[Moon]] and set the [[Shadowkeep|events]] that would come to pass. However, the Daughters failed to realize that this deal was another deceit of Savathûn's; the Witch-Queen was aware that even with the Choir and Zulmak the Guardians would decimate the Hidden Swarm. In truth, The Witch-Queen wanted the Scarlet Keep built as bait to lure in Guardians so that Oryx's bloodline would go extinct, believing it had run its course.
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| − | ===Extending her Reach===
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| − | {{Quote|Don't bother guessing the Taken's intentions. Ask instead what is sought by the hand that directs them. Savathûn extends her reach at last.|Eris Morn}}
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| − | Following her rivalry with Calus and the conflict on [[Luna]], Savathûn enacted a new scheme to further her plans. The Witch-Queen soon found an opportunity in a massive [[Vex]] computational array found on [[Io]] - as Savathûn sought knowledge to inform her plans and pawns to carry them out, the array would be able to fulfill both. She sent a large Taken Blight into the array to corrupt and bring it under her control, to which the Vex responded with violence. The [[Vanguard]] detected a massive surge of power beneath the [[Pyramidion]] where the array was located and sent a [[The Festering Core|Guardian strike team]] to investigate. They soon found the Vex and Taken, commanded by [[Baurisk, Envoy of Savathûn]], battling each other for control of the array; the Guardians recognized the Taken Blight to be similar to those found in the Dreaming City, causing them to suspect Savathûn as the one behind this Taken offensive. [[Eris Morn]] warned [[Zavala]] the Witch Queen was not as foolhardy as her brother as she would not risk a direct confrontation, and the City must be prepared and wise enough to know when Savathûn would play her hand.
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| − | ===The Arrival===
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| − | {{Quote|The Queen is clever. You did not share my father’s single-minded ambition, nor my brother’s taste for glory."<br/>"You wish to serve me?"<br/>"My life is spent: servitude to those who cast me away. Our blood is all that remains of the old pact."<br/>"Then let us make use of each other.|Nokris bargains with Savathûn}}
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| − | Shortly prior to the Pyramids’ arrival, [[Nokris]] attempted to enter the Ascendant Realm by way of trickery, instead of the Sword-Logic. This attracted the attention of his aunt. Savathûn drew her nephew into her throne world and struck a bargain: in her plans to defy the Pyramids, she had taken notice of his necromantic power. Knowing that the Pyramids would soon converge on Sol, she instructed Nokris to interfere in any of their attempts to communicate with the Guardian.
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| − | To aid her nephew, she ordered the Taken under her command to attack [[Io]]. The moon had been chosen by the first [[Pyramid (Io)|Pyramid]] to make contact, and the vessel had taken position above the [[Cradle]], where a [[Tree of Silver Wings (Io)|Tree of Silver Wings]] had grown in the wake of the Traveler’s departure. Savathûn’s forces invaded the site in order to interfere in any communication attempts. As the Pyramids invaded [[Mercury]], [[Titan (moon)|Titan]] and [[Mars]] as well, multiple Eyes of Savathûn appeared in these locations; Eris Morn believed they were a way the Witch Queen spied on the assailed planets and could only be destroyed by the [[Ruinous Effigy]] - a rifle gifted by the [[Darkness]] from the Tree's branch.
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| − | Though Nokris was able to delay the Guardians' attempts to communicate with the Darkness for weeks, he was ultimately slain, ending Savathûn's interference.
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| − | {{Quote|The Black Fleet intends to punish Savathûn for interfering with its efforts to communicate with us. No one knows where the Witch Queen is, not even her own court. And now Xivu Arath is using this opportunity to consolidate her power.|[[Osiris]] on the topic of Savathûn}}
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| − | The Witch Queen's efforts to subvert the Pyramids would not go unanswered; the Hive broods that previously sworn to Savathûn would brand her a heretic for having conspired against the Darkness with the exiled [[Nokris]] and defected from her ranks as the Black Fleet invaded Sol, sending the former into hiding. Due to this her own court was left in the dark of her whereabouts.
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| − | This granted her sister, [[Xivu Arath]], the opportunity to consolidate the Hive in the Solar System into her power and release her [[Wrathborn]] corruption with the [[Cryptolith]]s. Xivu would also send her champion, the [[High Celebrant of Xivu Arath|High Celebrant]], to hunt the excommunicated Witch Queen and wrestle control of the [[Hidden Swarm]] free from her schemes.
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| − | Her absence did not impede her Taken forces, however, as they swarmed upon a new piece of the Traveler in the [[EDZ]], which was calling out to [[the Guardian]] and the [[Uldren Sov|Crow]] through the form of a paracausal hawk. The Witch Queen shrouded the shard in her interference much like the Tree of Silver Wings on Io, and apparently watched the fight that ensued. Observing Crow and the Guardian celebrate their victory at a bonfire, she was hit with a sudden wave of nostalgia, remembering her father, sisters, and their shared past on Fundament.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/11/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Beyond Light]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Hawkmoon]]''</ref>
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| − | Titles of the Taken commanders she sent to battle the Guarian under the shard - [[Akorith, Lightdrinker of Savathûn]], [[Ishrasek, Lightbinder of Savathûn]], [[Korusk, Lighteater of Savathûn]] and [[Tarusk, Lightstealer Savathûn]] - imply she might be trying to siphon the Light from the Traveler in some way.
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| − | ===Torobatl Destruction===
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| − | {{Quote|Xivu Arath, hear me."<br>"You are war, and I conjure you with war and blood."<br>"A gift for my favorite sister.|Savathûn conjuring Xivu Arath through Umun'arath's death.}}
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| − | At some point after [[Dominus Ghaul]]'s defeat, Savathûn began to meddle with the Evocate-General [[Umun'arath]]'s mind and fuel her obsession with the Hive. Umun'arath started to believe the worship of Hive gods and deployment of their battle techniques was necessary for the [[Cabal]]'s survival. Under the Witch-Queen's influence, she began conducting a ritual in the central square of [[Torobatl]]'s weaponsmith district, and when [[Empress Caiatl|Caiatl]] approached her, she tried to coax her into kneeling before the "god of war". Caiatl slew the former General, but her death only fueled Savathûn's plan to conjure Xivu Arath in Torobatl and gift her another system to wage war upon.<ref>'''Bungie (2021/2/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Chosen]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard'', [[Lore:Empress#CHAPTER 5: NEW GODS|Empress]]</ref>
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| − | When [[the Last City]] was shrouded in eternal night, [[Ikora Rey]] and [[Osiris]] reached out to [[Mithrax, Kell of Light]] for help. Together they deducted it was the Vex who trapped the city in a simulation, but it took weeks for the [[Splicers|Splicer]] to find out which [[Axis Mind]] was directly responsible. The simulation growing by the week, it rendered the people restless and often made them to lash out against the [[Fallen|Eliksni]] refugees who had fled to the City under Ikora's protection. The unrest only grew when Mithrax found out it was Savathûn who had been behind it the whole time, and [[Lakshmi-2]] disclosed this information to the public. He believed the only way to end the endless night would be destroying Quria, but the Vex's active interference prevented him from finding it. Entering the [[Vex Network]], Guardians discovered it was corrupted and full of both Vex and Taken, and a strange message would appear on their HUD as they [[Expunge: Labyrinth|tracked another Mind through its domain]].
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| − | Savathûn was apparently observing all this very closely, strolling the City in disguise. She fed on the people's ignorance and naiveté, but would catch herself seeking their companionship--much to her own disquiet. Watching the endless night unravel, she was still tormented by her Worm, hungry even amidst such ample deception to feed on, and raised her eyes to the Traveler waiting for her overhead.<ref>'''Bungie (2021/5/11)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Splicer]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore:Beneath_the_Endless_Night#VII_-_Ripe|Beneath the Endless Night, VII - Ripe]]''</ref>
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| − | ==Savathûn's Song==
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| − | Through years of trickery and deceit, Savathûn was able to produce what was described as a viral language capable of infecting the minds of her adversaries.<ref>'''Bungie (2019/06/04)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Opulence]] [[Shadow of War Suit#Shadow's Greaves| Shadow's Greaves]]''</ref> This tune has been incorporated into various soundtrack pieces, most notably the [[Shadowkeep]] title music. Its connection to [[Savathûn's Song|the Shrieker of the same name]] is as of now unknown.
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| − | As Savathûn's presence was looming ever closer, instances of a strange, recurring tune would be noticed among the Guardians and Lightless alike. When [[The Drifter (character)|the Drifter]] asked [[Eris Morn]] about a song [[Lord Shaxx]] claimed she had taught him,<ref name="Devil's Ruin">'''Bungie (2019/12/10)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Dawn]], Playstation 4, [https://www.ishtar-collective.net/transcripts/quest-parts-long-lost-a-moment-in-time Quest: Parts Long Lost, A Moment In Time]''</ref> she revealed the melody was actually a viral chant, unable to be unheard, spread by the Witch Queen. She also suggested it might have been sung to Shaxx by the Ahamkara skull he kept hanging over his spot.<ref name="Prophecy">'''Bungie (2020/6/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]], Playstation 4, [[Prophecy]]''</ref> Savathûn is implied to be using the skull to spy on the Guardians in the Tower, most importantly Zavala.<ref>'''Bungie (2020/6/9)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of Arrivals]], Playstation 4, [[Traveler's Chosen]]''</ref>
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| − | So far, the individuals known to have heard the song are Lord Shaxx, [[Saint-14]] and [[Osiris]],<ref name="Devil's Ruin" /> Eris Morn, the Drifter,<ref name="Prophecy" /> the Guardian and [[Crow]] (he can be heard humming it in the [[H.E.L.M.]]).
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| − | In [[Season of the Splicer]], [[Lakshmi-2]] mentions in a message to the Guardian a song the City inhabitants sing to lift their spirits during the endless night. Its melody is that of Savathûn's Song. Furthermore, [[Aunor Mahal]] discovered a strange binary code all over the [[Future War Cult]] network, which, upon translating, reveals the notes of that same melody.<ref>'''Bungie (2021/5/11)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Season of the Splicer]] - [[The Deicide]]''</ref>
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| − | ==Family==
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| − | *'''[[Osmium King]]''' - <small>Father</small>
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| − | ***'''[[Balwûr]]''' - <small>Daughter</small>
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| − | ***'''[[Malok, Pride of Oryx|Malok]]''' - <small>Son</small>
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| − | ***'''[[Dûl Incaru, the Eternal Return|Dûl Incaru]]''' - <small>Daughter</small>
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| − | **'''[[Oryx, the Taken King|Oryx]]''' - <small>Brother</small>
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| − | ***'''[[Crota, Son of Oryx|Crota]]''' - <small>Nephew</small>
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| − | ****'''[[Hashladûn, Daughter of Crota|Hashladûn]]''' - <small>Grandniece</small>
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| − | ****'''[[Besurith, Daughter of Crota|Besurith]]''' - <small>Grandniece</small>
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| − | ****'''[[Voshyr]]''' - <small>Grandniece</small>
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| − | *****'''[[Yishra]]''' - <small>Great-grandniece</small>
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| − | *****'''[[Ayriax]]''' - <small>Great-grandniece</small>
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| − | ****'''[[Kinox]]''' - <small>Grandniece</small>
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| − | *****'''[[Ulg'Urin]]''' - <small>Great-grandnephew</small>
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| − | ***'''[[Nokris, Herald of Xol|Nokris]]''' - <small>Nephew</small>
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| − | ***'''[[Ir Halak, Deathsinger|Ir Halak]]''' - <small>Niece</small>
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| − | ***'''[[Ir Anûk, Deathsinger|Ir Anûk]]''' - <small>Niece</small>
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| − | **'''[[Xivu Arath, God of War|Xivu Arath]]''' - <small>Sister</small>
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| − | ***'''[[Xavan, Daughter of Xivu Arath|Xavan]]''' - <small>Niece</small>
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| − | ***'''[[Tir Balok, Daughter of Xivu Arath|Tir Balok]]''' - <small>Niece</small>
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| − | ***'''[[An Ragaar, Son of Xivu Arath|An Ragaar]]''' - <small>Nephew</small>
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| − | *Savathûn is notorious to slip her own words into others' broadcasts and texts: she did that in the [[Books of Sorrow#XLI: Dreadnaught|Books of Sorrow]], [[Lore:The Chronicon#MCXXV.|Chronicon]], and even in some way at the onset of the war in Torobatl, as described in the book [[Lore:Empress#CHAPTER 5: NEW GODS|Empress]]. Her notes are often exhibited in brackets. This is referenced in [[Lore:Truth to Power|Truth to Power]],<ref>'''Bungie (2018/9/4)''', ''[[Destiny 2]]: [[Forsaken]], Playstation 4, Activision Blizzard, [[Lore:Truth to Power#Thank You|Truth to Power - "Thank You"]]'', "You hunted me between the lines of your texts. Wherever there was space to fit me in, there you found me."</ref> a set of messages supposedly serving to trick the Guardian into paying the Witch Queen tribute. | + | * |
| − | *The parts of Savathûn's court seen in Season of Arrivals bear a resemblance to some regions of the [[Dreadnaught]], as well as the landscape of Io. While the latter could be because the singularity which the Guardian is being pulled into is anchored on Io, the reason for the former is unclear. This could be simply an out-of-universe design choice, a direct aesthetic parallel to Oryx, or a hint towards Savathûn actually incorporating parts of her late brother's throne world into her own.
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| − | ==List of appearances==
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| − | {{Col-begin}}
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| − | *''[[Destiny]]''
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| − | **''[[The Taken King]]'' {{Fm}}
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| − | **''[[April Update]]'' {{Mo}}
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| − | *''[[Destiny 2]]'' {{Mo}}
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| − | **''[[Warmind (expansion)|Warmind]]'' {{Mo}}
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| − | **''[[Forsaken]]'' {{Mo}}
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| − | ***''[[Season of Opulence]]'' {{Mo}}
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| − | **''[[Shadowkeep]]'' {{Mo}}
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| − | **''[[Beyond Light]]'' {{Mo}}
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